Tag Archives: Silurian

Two previous Dry Dredgers blogs (2/23/16 and 6/30/16) summarize field trips that Tom Bantel and I took to the Silurian Brassfield Limestone in Ripley County, Indiana. On those previous visits, we collected samples for stratigraphy studies being done by Dr. Mark Kleffner (Ohio State University at Lima). Tom and I recently returned to obtain additional

At the end of November (28-30), the St. Paul, Indiana quarry held an open house for fossil collectors. Jim Cox (of the Dry Dredgers) happened to see a post about the event on Fossil Forum (thefossilforum.com), and passed the word along. So, off I went on the 30th. The open house was apparently not

I frequently collect the Massie (formerly Osgood) Shale of Southeast Indiana, usually in pursuit of the rare Spathacalymene nasuta (“snout-nosed”) trilobite. The search is made all the more difficult since the locality, a commercial quarry, has not exposed any new productive shale in several years. So I find myself picking through the same old rocks

No, this isn’t a question on a TV game show. The beast I refer to falls into the category of echinoderms. And for this recently found Silurian cystoid specimen, I’m hoping someone can provide an answer to What’s my genus? On yet another one of my many trips to the Silurian Massie (formerly

Yup. Admittedly, I do focus a lot of my blogs on a Silurian Massie Shale locality in Southeast Indiana. That’s because I collect there a lot. Many other collectors have visited the site a few times, but by far I am the most frequent repeat scavenger. In part, the lack of other frequent visitors

Yes! For those not familiar with sea stacks, they are “humps” of rock formed by wave and/or wind erosion of the surrounding rock. There are some excellent very large examples along the Oregon coast. Back to Indiana. Over the past few years, what we have informally called “sea stacks” have been exposed in

I recently again returned to my all-time favorite site: the Silurian Massie Shale in Ripley County, Indiana. I’ve reported on this locality in previous Dry Dredger blogs, for example: http://www.drydredgers.org/blog/wp/2016/04/silurian-massie-shale-field-trip/ http://www.drydredgers.org/blog/wp/2016/03/collaboration-between-amateur-and-professional-paleontologists-4/] The majority of the collectable Silurian shale is on the spoil piles. While there are no new shale exposures in the quarry and

A new collecting season is here! And I’ve already returned to my all-time favorite site: the Silurian Massie Shale of New Point Stone in Ripley County, Indiana. [I’ve reported on this locality in previous Dry Dredger blogs, for example: http://www.drydredgers.org/blog/wp/2016/03/collaboration-between-amateur-and-professional-paleontologists-4/] The collectable Silurian shale is on the spoil piles. While there are no

In the fossil community, there has been much discussion about the connection between amateur and professional paleontologists, especially in light of new legislation that may restrict amateur collecting opportunities on government land. This blog post will not venture into the debate about that, but rather will focus on a recent example of collaboration between

In the fossil community, there has been much discussion about the connection between amateur and professional paleontologists, especially in light of new legislation that may restrict amateur collecting opportunities on government land. This blog post will not venture into the debate about that, but rather will focus on a recent example of collaboration between amateurs

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